Summary
The upcoming Portworx Enterprise 3.3 supports VM workloads at enterprise scale on industry-leading Kubernetes platforms from Red Hat, SUSE, Kubermatic, and Spectro Cloud.
Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware continues to create ripples as companies seek out modern solutions that can drive virtualization efforts without subjecting the business to massive price hikes. As a result, many have turned—or are expecting to turn—to Kubernetes as an alternative that supports both VMs and containers. This allows enterprises to use one platform to propel their cloud-native application development and fortify their infrastructure modernization.
Eighty-one percent of enterprises that participated in a 2024 survey of Kubernetes experts plan to migrate or modernize their VMs to Kubernetes! And almost two-thirds of those plan to do so within the next two years.
Yet new challenges arise as enterprises increasingly move virtual machines to Kubernetes. Portworx® empowers organizations to seamlessly make that transition. With the upcoming launch of Portworx Enterprise 3.3, we are extending our industry-leading container data management platform to support VM workloads at enterprise scale. As the industry leader in container data management, Portworx provides the performance, data resiliency, and data protection necessary for mission-critical workloads with the simplicity, flexibility, and reliability needed for production at enterprise scale.
Portworx Enterprise 3.3 Addresses Economic, Virtualization, and Storage Pain Points
Built for Kubernetes, Portworx offers the scalability, automation, and self-service capabilities required to support the churn and elasticity of cloud-native applications. Portworx Enterprise 3.3 addresses C-suites’ virtualization concerns around cost efficiency by allowing data storage stakeholders to go at their own pace in their modernization journey due to its unified platform and multiple integrations.
“Kubernetes is the dominant platform for containerized workloads of all types, from VMs to fully cloud-native applications. With Portworx 3.3, Pure Storage is bringing together a scalable data management platform with a simplified workflow across containers and VMs. That’s appealing to enterprises modernizing their infrastructure, pursuing cloud-native applications, or both.”
– Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, DevOps and Application Development at Futurum
“Portworx Enterprise 3.3 represents a game-changer for organizations modernizing their virtualization environment, delivering a robust, cost-efficient platform that seamlessly supports both VMs and containers on Kubernetes. With Portworx projecting cost savings of 30-50% compared to traditional alternatives, this solution empowers enterprises to optimize their infrastructure without compromising performance or scalability, making it a robust choice for production environments at scale.”
– Steven Dickens, CEO and Principal Analyst at HyperFRAME Research
Organizations can expect a 30%-50% cost savings by choosing Kubernetes compared to alternatives—and Portworx allows them to take these savings to the next level. Enterprises won’t need to invest in resources to move workloads to cloud native. Instead, they can indefinitely keep their VMs on Kubernetes while refactoring or creating net-new cloud-native applications based on their existing resources and transformation timelines.
Portworx Enterprise 3.3 also simplifies data storage for teams operating VMs and containers on Kubernetes. They can now implement a single workflow for applications without relying on multiple tools or processes. In addition, the agnostic approach to the underlying storage means storage and platform teams can implement this solution in Pure Storage, non-Pure Storage, and mixed infrastructure environments.
With this upcoming release, Portworx is offering enterprises the opportunity to experience true VM performance at scale with unified data storage management and valuable integrations—making Portworx the de facto storage and data standard for any workload running on Kubernetes.
Portworx Enterprise 3.3 at a Glance
- High performance at scale: Portworx Enterprise 3.3 will feature RWX Block for KubeVirt VMs that are running on FlashArray™ or across any storage vendor. This will propel powerful read/write capabilities and drive high-performance storage for VMs running on Kubernetes.
- Enterprise-grade data management and protection: Enterprises can now manage their data from a single management plane, including synchronized disaster recovery for VMs running on Kubernetes with no data loss (zero RPO). Portworx also supports file-level backups for Linux VMs, allowing for more granular backup and restore of VMs running on Kubernetes.
- Broad ecosystem integrations to leading KubeVirt solutions: With Portworx Enterprise 3.3, customers can leverage reference architecture and partner integrations with KubeVirt platforms from SUSE, Spectro Cloud, and Kubermatic—in addition to Portworx’s existing collaboration with Red Hat.
Explore What’s Next
Portworx now supports VMs running on Kubernetes in collaboration with Red Hat, SUSE, Kubermatic, and Spectro Cloud, with customers spanning multiple industries and geographies. Connect with our team at KubeCon EMEA 2025, April 2-4, to learn more about how you can automate, protect, and unify your data for containers and VMs anywhere—on-prem or in the cloud, on any Kubernetes distribution, and with support for any application. (We’ll be in booth S310 in the South Events Hall.)
“Modernizing infrastructure remains a top priority for many organizations as they look for new ways to innovate and bring products and services to market faster. Our engineering collaboration with Portworx helps improve performance with block volumes optimized for VMs and delivers new capabilities to protect business-critical workloads with synchronous replication for metro disaster recovery. Customers can more confidently deploy VM workloads, like databases alongside container-native applications, across complex IT footprints to meet their business needs.”
– Mike Barrett, Vice President and General Manager, Hybrid Cloud Platforms, Red Hat
“As more organizations modernize their virtualization platforms, they need a seamless way to operate virtual machines on Kubernetes at enterprise scale. Portworx and SUSE are working together to enable customers to leverage the enterprise-grade data management Portworx brings for VMs and containers running across SUSE Virtualization and SUSE Rancher Prime anywhere.”
– Peter Smails, SVP, General Manager, Enterprise Container Management, SUSE.
“Many of our enterprise customers are actively pursuing a Kubernetes-native VMware replacement strategy. We have a longstanding partnership with Portworx, and we’ve made its products an integral part of our Virtual Machine Orchestrator architecture. Add in the services expertise from our system integrator partners, and the result is that we offer customers the most complete and compelling solution for modern virtualization at scale.”
– Alex Septoff, VP of Channels and Alliances at Spectro Cloud
For more detailed technical specifications on the key enterprise storage and data capabilities in Portworx Enterprise 3.3, visit here.
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